Why does this happen to the around 1,100 EMS clinicians of FDNY*EMS, and not the 118 female firefighters of the FDNY? Why is it that the members of FDNY*EMS are given short shrift? Why is turnover so high in the command that paramedics leave to drive garbage trucks, EMTs stay only a few years before getting out, and so few stay on long enough that a pension may as well be a lottery ticket?

Maybe the answer is staring us in the face.